Word: wessex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States Stee! Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Betsy Palmer and Richard Greene huddling next to a cozy yarn, taken from one of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales, about a beautiful widow, a virtuous preacher and a ring of brandy smugglers...
...stone may have been sacred because it makes fine axes, and the Beaker People had a cult that centered around the ax At any rate, says Atkinson, they must have dragged and floated those 82 tones, weighing up to seven tons, all the way from Wales (about 200 miles). Wessex Aristocrats. Stonehenge II lasted for some 150 years. Then a third people moved in to take over the ancient shrine. They decided that the bluestones were not big enough, so they quarried enormous blocks of sandstone in the Marlborough Downs, 25 miles from Stonehenge. Some of these weigh 42 tons...
...foreign commerce of the "Wessex aristocrats" is probably the reason for sophistication of the shrine they built at Stonehenge. The heavy stone lintels are not merely placed on top of the uprights. They are laboriously fitted The lintels are curved to fit the circles in which they lie, and their sides are in clined to counteract the foreshortening effect of perspective...
...adorn the new home of the first Appellate Department of the New York court system, overlooking Manhattan's Madison Square. The other nine were Moses, Hindustan's Manu, Persia's Zoroaster, Sparta's Lycurgus, Athens' Solon, China's Confucius, Byzantium's Justinian, Wessex' Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express the universality of the idea of law. Lycurgus and Confucius, Zoroaster and Alfred stand for very disparate systems of conduct...